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W. E. TAPT. BILLGIAR'D CUSHION.

No. 599,371. Patented. Feb. 22,1898.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WALTER E. TAFT, OF PROVIDENCE-RHODE ISLAND, ASSIGNOR TO ISAAC WV.

- SAYVIN, OF SAME PLACE.

BILLIARD-CUSHION.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 599,371, dated February 22, 1898.

Application filed June 24, 1897.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WALTER E. TAFT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Providence, in the State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Billiard-Cushions, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has reference to the devices for increasing the resilience and elasticity of the cushion, whereby the billiard-ball may be driven away from the cushion at a greater rate of speed, causing it to travel to a greater distance than when driven with an equal force against the common cushions now in use; and my invention consists in the improved construction of the cushion, as hereinafter fully set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a cross-section of a rail and cushion embodying the invention with the billiard-ball in contact with the cushion. Fig. 2 represents a cross-section showing a diiferent construction. Fig. 3 represents a section similar to Fig. 2, illustrating another form of construction embodying the invention. Fig. l represents a section similar to Fig. 2, showing a modification. Fig. 5 represents a section showing another modification.

Referring to Figs. 1 and 2, A represents the cushion-rail of a billiard-table; B, the bed; 0 and D, the cushion.

O is a resilient rubber strip of triangular shape fastened to the rail and having a V shaped air-recess d at the back of the strip next to the cushion-rail A, as shown in Fig. 2.

D is a separate triangular-shaped rubber strip fastened at its lower extremity e to the rail at a in such a position that the apical edge 0 of the rear strip 0 shall rest against the back of the front strip D at or nearly in line with the apical edge of the front strip.

As shown in Fig. 3, the front strip D has a stiff reinforcement at its lower extremity at Serial No. 642,157. (No model.)

6. In the modification shown at Fig. 4 the space h is filled in, as shown at g.

In Fig. 5 the portions 0 and D, front and 1'ear,(sh0wn in Fig. 4,) are formed integrally in one strip, the angle 2' between the said portions being made acute, as in Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 4, and located, as in the said figures, at about the line of the horizontal plane passing through the apical edge I), thus preserving a distinctive feature of the cushion.

It will be obvious to skilled mechanics that these details may be varied within wide limits without departing from the spirit of the invention.

Having thus described myinvention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a billiard-cushion, the combination of the cushion-rail, the forward cushion-strip, and the cushion-cloth with the rear cushionstrip having an apical edge which bears against the back of the forward cushionstrip, substantially as described.

2. In a billiard-cushion, the combination of the cushion-rail, the forward cushion-strip, and the cushion-cloth with the rear cushionstrip having an air-recess at its back, and an apical edge which bears against the back of the forward cushion-strip, substantially as described.

3. In a billiard-cushion, the combination of the cushion-rail,and the cushion-strip formed in front and rear portions, with an acute angle between the under sides of the said portions, having its apex at about the line of the I horizontal plane passing through the forward apical edge of the cushion, substantially as described.

\VALTER E. TAFT.

Witnesses:

SOOBATES SoHoLFIELn, HARRY J. GANEAU. 

